Charles Leroy Alsager, Sr. v. District Court of Polk County, Iowa

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Iowa Code § 232.41—providing that the court may terminate a parental relationship where “the parents have substantially and continuously or repeatedly refused to give the child necessary parental care and protection”—was unconstitutionally vague.
• parental right to integrity of the familial relationship, unless by conduct it be forfeited
• statute terminating parental rights for refusal to “give child necessary parental care and protection” or for “conduct... detrimental to the physical or mental health or morals of the child” held unconstitutionally void for vagueness
• child custody encompassed within liberties protected by Due Process Clause
• child custody encompassed within liberties protected by Due Process Clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).